It was impossible for the Tokugawa family to have so much land, but they had taken it from the daimyo who were their enemies, and the daimyo had been severely weakened, confiscating 90 daimyo domains, cutting 6.3 million stone fiefdoms of daimyo such as Mori and Uesugi to establish 88 genealogical dai, kinbo, and tendo domains.

The shogunate had a tight control over the daimyos, and the daimyo of the Tokugawa clan, the daimyo from the former Tokugawa clan, and the direct domains of the Tokugawa clan were staggered and divided from the domains of the daimyo of the outer daimyos, and these daimyo were closely monitored. In addition, a system was established to provide an account system for the participation of the daimyos, and the daimyo were ordered to live in exile between Edo and the territory every other year, and when they returned to the territory, their wives and children remained in Edo as hostages.

Under such a system, it stands to reason that the daimyo did not have the opportunity to rebel against the shogunate, because the daimyo were either in Edo (Tokyo) under the control of the shogunate, or their wives and children were in Edo, but this system of rotational residence, coupled with the consumption on the road, made the daimyo have no time to run the territory, and a lot of money was also consumed on the journey, unable to cultivate soldiers and horses, the Tokugawa shogunate controlled the daimyo through this method, but let the daimyo lose control of his own territory, and the management of the territory was in the hands of the retainers of the feudal lords. Just as the French Emperor Louis XIV weakened the aristocracy by having them live in Versailles and dance and have fun. The daimyo of the late Tokugawa shogunate gradually lost their real power.

Therefore, the Shogunate faction was not these daimyo who were strictly supervised and controlled, but the vassals of the daimyos. These feudal vassals lived in the territory for a long time, received systematic education, and had management experience, and they learned more advanced management knowledge and management concepts through contact with Chinese commercial companies, and some began to practice these concepts in the territory of Honbo, and the reason why the powerful feudal lords in the southwest dared to resist the shogunate with a small area was because they organized the peasants in the territory and established a conscription army, so that their forces would not be lost to the vast territory of the shogunate.

These people also learned more about advanced weapons, purchased and equipped their own troops, and greatly improved their combat effectiveness. In addition, because Zhu Mian had hired a large number of Japanese samurai in the early years, most of these samurai were southwestern samurai, and they brought back advanced military systems, which greatly strengthened the military strength of the powerful feudal kingdoms in the southwest.

In addition to the strong feudal domain in the southwest, after more than ten years of opening up, the northeast has suddenly become stronger. The reason for their prosperity is mainly due to the factor of border land development. In the past, the northwestern part of Japan, near Hokkaido, belonged to the border region, and Mutsu and Dewa were both large and sparsely populated large Tibetan valves. The two countries are known as Ou and have always been very closely linked. Historically, in order to guard against threats from the Kanto region, Mutsu and the Kanto region were separated from Japan's political core, such as Shirakawa Pass and Belai Pass. Due to its distance from Kyoto, it has lagged behind in political and cultural development, but the territory is large and abundant, and the quality of soldiers and horses has been high since ancient times.

Far from the core area, the vast land and sparsely populated area were originally a disadvantage, but with the opening up of Japan and the penetration of China's commercial forces, it has brought them opportunities for development.

In addition, from the densely populated areas of central and western Japan, a large number of surplus people were attracted to immigrate, making them more and more powerful, and like the powerful feudal lords in the southwest, they did not belong to the Tokugawa shogunate's lineage, so they had a strong tendency to secede, and began to be dissatisfied with the Tokugawa shogunate's monopoly on their domestic mineral development.

In Japan, the three-legged situation led by the shogunate in the central core area, the maritime trade feudal clan in the southwest coast, and the frontier feudal clan in the northeastern region has become more and more obvious.

The shogunate had become increasingly difficult to control the feudal domain, and the urban burghers in the territory were becoming poorer and poorer, and riots continued, with more than 420 riots launched by the lower townsmen and the urban poor, and more and more bankrupt peasants in the countryside, and more and more peasants launched more "common people's rebellions" than urban riots.

Not only urban residents and rural people, but also middle- and lower-class samurai were often detained and exploited by shoguns and daimyos, and some samurai lost their sources of livelihood and became "ronin". Even the middle and lower class samurai began to go bankrupt in large numbers, and they became more and more dissatisfied with the shogunate. These situations were not only caused by the invasion of Chinese goods, but the economic shock of China clearly accelerated the collapse of the shogunate system.

The civil strife unleashed by the poor samurai, bankrupt peasants and proletarian citizens made the shogunate powerless to control the strong domain, and repeatedly found that the strong domain was purchasing arms, and proposed this phenomenon to Zhou Lang, who repeatedly ordered a strict investigation of the arms trade, and at the same time reminded the shogunate that this kind of smuggling was difficult to eliminate, and suggested that the shogunate also purchase advanced arms and reorganize the army.

At the same time, he has always supported the shogunate in an attitude, and the conflict between the shogunate and the daimyo mediated by the envoys in Japan is not once or twice, but almost every year.

To support the shogunate was to support the feudal system of Japan, and it was impossible for the shogunate to rise up to the idea of unifying the whole country, because if the shogunate wanted to do so, it would inevitably lead to rebellion, and the shogunate could only maintain this system centered on him. When the strong feudal clan reached the shogunate, it was possible to rely on vigor and determination to innovate.

Therefore, when the strong feudal lords became more and more domineering, and less and less regarded the shogunate, the powerful feudal clans in the southwest broke through the trade restrictions, and the strong feudal clans in the northeast recaptured the local minerals, and even formed their own powerful armies, and sharpened their knives many times when Huo Huo wanted to start a war with the shogunate, the Chinese envoys were unswervingly on the side of the shogunate, saying that once the war started, China would send troops to help the shogunate, and the forces that had fallen under the shogunate were always suppressed.

Zhou Lang found that the root cause of the shogunate's weaker and weaker state was not the decline in the property in the shogunate's territory, but the growth of the population, the decline in the average possession of resources, and the annexation phenomenon brought about by economic development. These wandering samurai, who have both military culture and organizational ability, do not produce and are the most resentful.

The shogunate's finances were no longer able to support the four or five hundred thousand samurai class, so a large number of samurai had no livelihood because of poverty. In Japan, there have even been incidents in which wealthy townspeople (citizens) despised and insulted samurai, such as samurai being ridiculed for eating because of the small amount of food, being insulted for buying clothes and asking for a price reduction, being scorned by the townspeople for trembling at the sound of cannons, and being beaten half to death for unreasonable violence against the townspeople.

As a privileged class, like the children of the Eight Banners of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, they are used to bullying people, and when they suddenly bully people, they will be beaten violently, coupled with increasing poverty, their resentment is heavier than that of civilians, and these people are all armed with knives and have practiced martial arts since childhood.

Zhou Lang reminded the shogunate that the idea was bankrupt samurai, and the shogunate said that they were also worried about the samurai launching the "Ichiku", which had already appeared many times in Japan, with the participation of samurai and the "reincarnation" that demanded reform.

Historically, it was these bankrupt lower-class samurai who won the shogunate, not the townspeople (townspeople) and common people (farmers).

Zhou Lang didn't want the shogunate to fall too quickly, nor did he want to pay too much cost, so he really sent troops to help the shogunate fight, so he came up with the most labor-saving way to find jobs for these bankrupt samurai.

What can these samurai do, they have no other survival skills other than drawing their swords and killing people. China is in a period of expansion, and although large-scale wars are rarely fought, small repressive military operations are carried out every year. Suppression of indigenous rebellions in Australia, Indian rebellions in the Americas, and black tribal rebellions in Africa were used everywhere. The army used was not a regular army, but a mercenary, and it was not a regular officer who presided over military operations, but a veteran officer hired by the four major overseas companies.

These wars are unconventional, random, and miniaturized, and are not suitable for large corps.

African companies generally employ South African slave teams, American companies hire North American Indians, Australian companies hire Nanyang natives, and European companies also have their own arms, and because European companies do not have their own territories under their own control like other companies, European companies mainly hire retired soldiers from within the country.

Zhou Lang proposed to the Tokugawa shogunate that the surplus of poor samurai was a great threat to social stability, but the samurai were not guilty, but it was only due to the withering finances and inability to support them. Instead of letting the samurai make trouble in Japan, let them join the army of the Chinese company and fight overseas.

In this way, the samurai also had a place to use, and they could also receive a stipend to support their families.

The Japanese shogunate knew that China was fighting for a long time against the four Yi in the east, west, north, and south directions, and after considering it, they also thought it reasonable, and gave the Japanese samurai a great bright name for joining China's overseas companies, calling it "helping the Tang Dynasty."

So three years ago, a Japanese samurai began to serve in China's four major overseas companies with the tacit consent of the shogunate, and then fought against American Indians, Australian natives, Nanyang headhunters, and African blacks.

With the explicit support of the shogunate, as well as the spiritual inspiration of the Shogunate, the bankrupt samurai were highly motivated to join the Chinese company to fight, quite a bit of the posture of the Western Crusaders, and they should be regarded as Confucian saint warriors, because they believed in the spirit of loyalty, righteousness, and bravery, and were born from Confucianism.

These samurai, who had enough to eat, had no reason to refuse to join the Chinese company if they had some courage, so for a time a large number of Japanese samurai were armed by the Chinese company, they were equipped with new rifles, and they were trained to be excellent infantrymen.

These people fought with Chinese companies and used their blood to expand China's overseas territory, and what they got was not only a generous military salary, but also advanced combat experience. Once these people return home, they can become the best modern officers.

Just like the powerful feudal clan in the southwest that first used these samurai of your country, once the shogunate used these samurai as a team to form a new army, Zhou Lang was still worried that the shogunate would collapse the strong domain. In order to maintain a balance, when the four major companies recruited soldiers in Japan, they also recruited soldiers in the territories of the strong domains. Let both the shogunate and the powerful feudal lords master the experience and skills of modern warfare, so that they can maintain a long period of division.

The British wooed Japan in this state, so Zhou Langcai lamented that the British Empire was poor in donkey skills.

But then again, Britain and Japan are co-opting, which shows how hard they are trying to confront their competitors.

To be sure, they worked harder than China diplomatically, and their efforts did pay off, with the United States forming an alliance with Britain.

Together, they will put pressure on China to jointly manage the Panama Canal.